When Peter Lamborn Wilson sent us the pile of paper that eventually became this book (and the Spiritual series) we could not have been more delighted. Peter has been a writing machine for decades and it would be easy to miss out on the kind of writing that he likes best. Punchy, idiosyncratic manifestos (of a sort). This collection of Peter's Anarchist Ephemera is filled with heart and astute observations.

All plans for "saving the world" ultimately rest on the assumption that humanity must undergo a change of heart. The paradox here is that if this change were to occur, no plans would be needed to bring about a "different world." The change of heart, the different consciousness, would be in itself the very shift in direction, the Reversion to human and spiritual values required for "salvation." Smash the machinic mind and there'd be no need to smash the actual machines.

Contents:
PART I: PURE CRITIQUE
Domestication
Critique of the Listener
Notes on Play
An Army of Jacks to Fight the Power
Letter to Valencia
PART II: AESTHETICS/POETIC TERRORISM
Ringing Denunciation of Surrealism
Salon Apocalypse/Secret Theater
Robert Anton Wilson, Author of The Illuminatus Trilogy & Cosmic Trigger Series, Dies at 74
The Alchemy of Luddism
Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters. San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2007
Obit: Ivan Illich
Presentation at Critical Strategies in Art and Media Conference
Divining Violence
Intellectual S/M is the Fascism of the Eighties - The Avant-Garde Eats Shit and Likes It
Resolution for the 1990s: Boycott Cop Culture
PART III: PROPOSALS/P.A.Z.
P.A.Z. Permanent Autonomous Zones
A Network of Castles
A Hudson Valley Tour
Pastoral Letter: A Fragment
Escapism
Somali Pirates
Back to 1911: Temporal Autonomous Zone
PART IV: HISTORY
An Esoteric Interpretation of the I.W.W. Preamble
Cross-Dressing in the Anti-Rent War
Burnt Over
Caliban's Masque: Spiritual Anarchy and the Wild Man in Colonial America

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